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Recommendation 30
30
Deferred
We recommend the Government commission a review of the operation of ‘perverse subsidies’ in the...
Recommendation
We recommend the Government commission a review of the operation of ‘perverse subsidies’ in the UK economy. This must entail the identification, assessment and tracking of public expenditure harmful to biodiversity, and the publication of data on the extent of such subsidies. Once such subsidies have been identified, Ministers must act to readdress the balance, removing harmful subsidies and re-directing money to nature conservation and recovery. (Paragraph 135) Domestic biodiversity policy and legislation
Government response summary AI-generated
The government defers action, stating it will work with the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and review their recommendations and potential policy/regulatory responses when they are available, rather than commissioning its own review of perverse subsidies.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
We are transitioning from the damaging Common Agricultural Payment subsidies to payments that actively reward farmers for the delivery of environmental benefits, by introducing new schemes that reward actions that recover nature: the Sustainable Farming Incentive, the Local Nature Recovery scheme and the Landscape Recovery scheme. These schemes will pay for sustainable farming practices, improving animal health and welfare, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, creating and preserving habitat, and making landscape-scale environmental changes. Further detail on how we are phasing out economic incentives which threaten conservation and restoration, can be found in our response to recommendation 14.
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